It should come as no surprise that elections over the weekend produced new leadership in both France and Greece. After all, both countries have been firmly in the grip of recession and debt for quite some time. A change in leadership after a prolonged period of economic distress is a trend throughout history – witness that [...][Continue Reading...]

It’s not exactly a secret that American politics are becoming more and more polarized -it’s the reason we see continual gridlock in the budget process, fighting over healthcare reform and gay marriage and certainly the down-to-the-wire default scare of last year’s debt extension. Now we see even more evidence of this disturbing trend in this article from [...][Continue Reading...]